Ensemble Unnamable: Pure Lands
$5-$15 sliding scale donation at the door
Ian Gwin — Winter into Spring
Ian Gwin — Suite for Broken Instruments
Ian Gwin — One Difference
Please note that our building's only elevator is still out of service, so the only way to access the Chapel is via a couple flights of stairs. We apologize for the inconvenience.
From graphic scores to broken instruments, Ensemble Unnamable presents an evening of acoustic music, led by writer and composer Ian Gwin.
The term "Pure Land" in Buddhist discourse refers to fields of activity beyond transmigration, spaces of contemplation a practitioner visits on the way to enlightenment. As a plane of transition from the difficulties of earthly life, a pure land invites new worlds of sound and perception.
Inspired by this iconography and its use in meditation practice, writer and composer Ian Gwin presents a set of experimental compositions prepared for particular performers.
These include Pure Lands, a minimal graphic piece written for Moscow-born violinist Kirill Polyanskiy. A graduate of Cornish School of the Arts, Kirill is the Concertmaster of the WSU Symphony Orchestra and plays in the first violin section of the Washington Idaho Symphony.
Winter into Spring, for solo piano, features dancer Yarrow Grae, a Seattle-born visual artist whose art has been exhibited in Norway and featured in residence at Massia Art Collective in Estonia.
Suite for Broken Instruments groups poet Eric Acosta with composer-performer Joey Largent. Known for his bimonthly poetry reading series, Eric has published in Concision, Clamor, NoMaterial, and performed music at Vermilion Gallery in Seattle. Focused on long-duration acoustic improvisations, Joey studied North Indian Classical Singing with disciples of Pandit Pran Nath, like Michael Harrison and Rose Okada.
One Difference also features Largent and writer/musician Meredith Davey. Former member of eclectic trio Supernowhere, Meredith composes and plays regularly, including with local group Masha.
About Wayward Music Series
Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present 10 concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center: contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics.
https://www.waywardmusic.org/About Joey Largent
Joey Largent’s work explores relationships between time, consciousness, and the physical body, using acoustic instruments to delicately interweave organic vibrations with both natural and psychosomatic landscapes. Through the performance of durational compositions rich in natural overtones – often using just intonation – and through frequent collaborations with movement artists, Joey seeks to produce deep feeling and experience through sound– one that is strongly immersive, sensitive, and empathetic, inviting listeners to be both performers and observers of the continuously changing sensations throughout the body and mind.
https://www.joeylargent.com/About Meredith Davey
From Upstate New York via Vermont, Meredith Davey (cello, voice, electronics) crafted songs and played bass in the indie-rock group Supernowhere. Their solo work features hypnotic grooves, liquid cello harmonies, and poetic lyrics.